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(No Model.)

J. W. CAMERON.

MACHINE FOR CUTTING CIGAR WRAPPERS. No. 355,918. Patented Jan. 11, 1887.

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MACHINE FOR CUTTING ClGAR-WRAPPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 355,918, dated January 11, 1887.

Application filed November '28, 1885. Serial No. 184,182. (No model.)

.To aZZ whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JAMES W. CAMERON, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Cutting Cigar \Vrappers, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure'l is a side elevation of a part of my improved machine, parts being broken away. Fig. 2 is a sectional end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the cutter and its elastic packing.

The object of this invention is to provide new and useful improvements in machines for cutting cigar-wrappers, whereby one leaf, or from fifty to one hundred tobacco-leaves, called a book, may be cut'at one operation and without the aid of any sustaining devices for holding the leaves in place while being out.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of various parts of the machine, as will be hereinafter .fully described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

A represents the frame of the machine, and B is the table attached to the top of the said frame.

To the table 13 is secured the bed-plate O, in the upper side of which is formed a groove to receive the rear edge of the cutter D, which groove is made of the exact shape of the said cutter, and the cutter is made of the exact shape of the required Wrappers. The cutter D projects through a rubber packing-block, E, of a thickness equal to or a little greater than the height of the cutter D above the bed-plate O, which block forms a table upon which the tobacco-leaf is laid, so that the said leaf can be readily adjusted. The upper edge of the cutter D is curved upon the arc of a circle, having its center in the aXisof the vibrating bar F, so that the rollerG, journaled to the forked upper end of the said vibrating bar, will move along the edge of the cutter D with a uniform pressure.

The roller G is made of a series of disks of compressed leather, rawhide, aper, or other suitable material, secured to a shaft by washers and nuts or other suitable means. The journals of the roller G revolve in bearings placedin the slotted upper ends of the branches of the bar F, and secured in place adj ustably by screws or other suitable means, so that the said roller can be readily adjusted to take up the Wear. The arms ofthe bar F pass through and vibrate in slots in the table 13, as shown in Fig. 2, and its lower end is pivoted to a pivot-pin, H, secured to a base-bar ofthe frame A or other suitable support. The middle part of the vibrating bar F is slotted longitudinally to re ceive the crank-pin I or a sliding bearing, J,

adapt it to serve also as a balance-wheel.

With this construction the machine is operated by turning the crank-wheel N, which vibrates the bar F and causes the roller G to move forward and back along the cutter D. As theroller G moves off the end of the cutter D, the leaf of tobacco is adjusted to bring the part of the said leaf, from which the Wrapper is to be cut,over the cutter D. As the roller G moves along the cutter D, it presses the leaf down upon the edge of the cutter, and presses the rubber packing E below the said edge, so that 1 the part of the leaf being out will be fullysupported while the cut is being made, and will thus be prevented from being torn,

I am aware that it is not new to provide a machine for cutting cigar wrappers with a knife shaped. to conform to the blank desired, and having a plate within the knife resting on spiral springs. was pivoted to swing in a horizontalline; also, that the roller has been journaled in fixed supports and the cutter secured to a verticallyvibrating arm operated by a treadle, and do not claim such as of my invention.

The arm carrying the roller I am also aware that itis not new to have a vertically-swinging arm carrying a roller to bear on the knife, and I do 'not claim the same, broadly, as of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In aeigar-blank cu tter,theknifeD,shaped to conform to the cigarblank, and a rubber block, E, having a slot shaped to receive the knife, and inclosing its inner and outer sides, the cutting-edge of the knife being approximately flush with the upper surface of the rubber block, substantially as set forth. I

2. The combination,withtheknife-supporting bed and the stationary knife D, having its upper edge curved in the arc of a vertical circle, of the arm F,vibrating in a vertical plane and journaled below theknife in the center of JAMES W. CAMERON.

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J AMns T. GRAHAM, G. SnnewIoK. 

